New York, Oct. 18.
and would be successful in forcing tion against aggressor nations ce The belief that a democratic coali-
peace upon the world was expressed by M. Troyanovsky, the Soviet Ambassador, in an interview to-day on his arrival in the United States afler a visit to Russia.
"Everyone wants somebody else to be the leader. In Russia there is only a feeling against aggression," he said in commenting on reports that Russia was mobilizing warplanes and troops in the Far Eastern frontier.
"We have planes in every place where we consider necessary," he declared. "Russia is quiet, but is ready for anything. There is great progress in industry, crops are and military defence is the strongest in the country's history."
'The Ambassador added that Russia would probably attend the Nine-Power Conference' if invited.—, Reuter, Further Details Told in Inquiry by Hongkong Commission Hongkong, Oct. 19.
The Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Hongkong Government continued its investigation to-day into the alleged sinking of Chinese junks by a Japanese man-o-war on September 22.
The Commission learned from junkmen, who claimed to be witnesses of the incident, that after the "sinking of numerous junks," the Japanese vessel, which, they said, was +a submarine, "machine-gunned seventeen survivors in a sampan, killing nine of them."
This allegation was the highlight of this mornings hearing, which was begun yesterday with fourteen survivors of sunken junks available as witnesses.—Reuter.
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